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Levine, special correspondent of the Chicago Daily News and
New York Globe, who was in Russia at the time and who has
had the courage to report his observations as he made them.
The Soviet government came into power peacefully. It continued
to rule peacefully for about five months, during which time no serious
counter-revolutionary efforts were made by any one. In the spring of
1918 the Socialist Revolutionists assassinated Uritzky and Volodarsky.
This party was the old party of the Terrorists of the Czar's time, of
which Spiridonova was one of the leaders. When they used Terroristic
methods to seek to overthrow the Soviet government the latter responded
by seizing, imprisoning and executing leaders of that party.
During the whole period of government terror, almost two years in
length, not more than 4,000 persons were executed by the Soviet Government. For example, I examined the records in Moscow for the first
three weeks in May, 1919. During that time eighty-five persons were
put to death, and nine-tenths of these were killed for civil crimes, such
highway robbery, burglary and the like. (N. Y. Globe, March 3, 1920.)
THE NATIONALIZATION OF WOMEN—IN AMERICA
For weeks the papers were full of the stories of the nationalization of women; the text of decrees were printed purporting to prove that women were public property in Soviet Russia.
The Associated Press, in a dispatch from London dated April
15, 1919, went so far as to transmit a long dispatch commenting on the administration of this decree. "The law providing
for the nationalization of women in Northeast Russia," it
states, "has been suspended in one province as the result of
popular outcry" . . . and so on for three-quarters of a column.
This whole story of the nationalization of women was so
obviously absurd that some of its chief disseminators finally
retracted it. The New Europe, the English periodical in which
the so-called decrees were originally published, admitted its
mistake and made public apology in its issue of March 13,
1919. Even the United States Department of State took pains
to deny the tale. In the official press release of February 28,
1919, the Department stated: "The rumor as to the nationalization of women is not true." It is safe to say, however, that
out of one hundred people who read the original stories not
more than one or two ever saw the denials.
The most authoritative and direct evidence about the
origin of this canard has come from the pen of one of the
most impartial Americans who ever visited Soviet Russia-
Oliver M. Sayler. In his book "Russia: White or Red " published in 1919 by Little, Brown & Co. of Boston, Mr. 'Sayler
says (p. 183):
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